Henderson v. United States

Henderson (defendant) was arraigned on federal charges, but delays in resolving a pretrial motion he filed pushed his trial past two years after arraignment. He challenged the delay under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. section 3161, arguing the excluded time attributable to his motion was not reasonably necessary.

Whether the Speedy Trial Act requires pretrial delays to be reasonably necessary in order to be excluded from the Act's 70-day trial requirement.